Report by Forensic Alpha

Forensic Alpha is a machine intelligence system that is able to scan through a company's filings, extracting relevant accounting and governance data. Their technology works by translating unstructured data found in the notes to the accounts and governance disclosures into structured data. They then process that data, searching for the presence of common red flags that are known to be indicators of weak fundamentals and / or imminent problems. 147 new company filings were processed in the past week across Europe. 29 companies saw significant new red flags. While this report focuses on Nordex (Contract Assets, Ageing of Receivables, Related Party Transactions), other stocks highlighted include Hellenic Telecommunications, Ubisoft, Merck KGaA and Hapag-Lloyd.

Report by Willis Welby

Methodology - the initial universes are stocks with $2bn+ M/Cap in the UK and $5.5bn+ across Europe. After that Willis Welby starts with a quality cut off based on their measure of Intrinsic Return on Capital Employed. They then narrow down using a combination of share price momentum and EBIT revisions before incorporating their expectations analysis via their measure of the implied to Y3 EBITM ratio. This month sees 6 stocks enter the UK screen (including Rio Tinto, Flutter, Renishaw) and 17 names added to the European version (including Nestle, Hapag-Lloyd, Roche, Vestas, Aker).